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Cormac Boydell worked as a geologist in Australia and Libya before moving to Allihies, West Cork in 1972 and has has been working full time in ceramics since 1983.

In making his work Boydell uses no tools, relishing instead the direct contact between hands and the clay to allow the nature of the clay to be apparent in form and texture. The resultant work demonstrates skill achieved over a lifetime to harness the power of clay.

Cormac uses a terracotta clay chosen because of the beauty of its orangey colour which is the perfect background to the colours he works with. His understanding of glazes can be described as an alchemy of bright, brilliant colours which has become a signature of his work.

As an ceramic artist working in clay, Cormac has exhbited extensively and his work is represented in public collections, including the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, the Ulster Museum, Belfast, the National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick, The Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin.

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